false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255651580m/6433721.jpg 2240527 5 The bestselling author of <i>Where The Heart Is</i> returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home. Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind. <i>Made In The U.S.A.</i> is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home. 1467852 19 6 2008 Made in the U.S.A. total:877|5:131|4:318|3:305|2:95|1:28| 877 3060 1396 308 4 1 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 13:18:33 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 17:18:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 4 false false Tue Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 18:08:07 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 16:57:22 -0700 2008 Where the Heart Is. But Made in the USA was a disappointment, with an extremely unlikeable ma...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 11:02:29 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 11:12:03 -0700 2009 1
The Plot: Billie Letts' opens her story in her favourite setting: Wal-Mart, where fifteen-yea...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 12:25:30 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 12:26:07 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 13:14:56 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 13:27:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:39:03 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:43:33 -0700 2009 http://fibrofoggy.blogspot.com/2009/06/b...

Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts kept me up past my bedtime, which is a good indication for me of how good a book is. Lutie and her brother Fale pulled at my heartstrings with their tragic story of loss...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 13 06:13:51 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 06:14:14 -0700 2009
Made in the USA is the harrowing, but stirring story of Lutie and Fate: a 15 year old girl and her 11 y...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue May 12 17:00:25 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 17:26:53 -0700 2009
Lutie is by far the more interesting of the two prota...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 08:41:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 08:51:17 -0700 2009
I haven't read _The Honk & Holler Opening Soon_, but I've read all her others, and I really wish Billie Letts had stopped with...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 09:02:18 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 09:17:13 -0700 2009
Lutie (15) and Fate (11) McFee have fallen between the "system's" crack. Orphanned, they set out to make a life for themselves in Las Vegas.

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